Media Institute of the Caribbean’s

COVID-19 Relief Monitoring Hub

project overview

This project seeks to monitor the utilization, and disbursement of funds received by regional governments from donors such as the IMF, World Bank, IDB, foundations and others. It will focus on the transparency of processes and the accountability of governments as safeguards to counter the possibility of mismanagement, fraud and corruption in the management of such funding. We will highlight the progress and also showcase positives and successes of the applied funds within the Caribbean countries listed below.

The COVID-19 crisis presents the world with a huge challenge: Everyone and everything is affected, and the response has to be both quick and global. While it is first and foremost a health crisis, it is also an education crisis, an employment and economic crisis, a crisis of hunger and poverty and, in some countries, a crisis of governance and political stability. According to World Bank estimates, the global impacts will be profound and long-lasting. For developing countries with much larger populations at risk, fewer resources, and less capacity, the pressure to develop innovative approaches, test them quickly, and deliver them at scale is especially great.

Multilateral agencies, international development partners and global donors have responded with urgency and alacrity to assist Caribbean countries to engineer an effective response to the challenges and development implications of the coronavirus, including health, economic, and social impacts.

This project is supported by Open Society Foundations.